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Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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More quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
Miguel de Unamuno
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Miguel de Unamuno
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Miguel de Unamuno
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
Miguel de Unamuno
The devil is an angel too.
Miguel de Unamuno
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de Unamuno
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
Miguel de Unamuno
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno